Meet the Pasquale Grasso Trio, consisting of jazz veterans Ari Roland on double bass, and Keith Balla on drums. The unassuming man carrying the auburn guitar was Pasquale Grasso, the musician who was recently voted as the #1 Top Jazz Guitarist in Downbeat Magazine’s 72nd Annual Critics Poll in the Rising Star Guitar Category. Grasso swiftly sat on a black piano bench on the front “stage,” plugged in his guitar, and counted off the first set.